Lumen de lumine Oder Ein neues Magisches Licht, geoffenbahret und der Welt mitgetheilet [...].
8vo. 288 pp. Contemporary half calf with sprinkled boards and red spine label. All edges red.
€ 950.00
A later German edition of this work first published in English in 1651 (as "A New Magicall Light Discovered and Communicated to the World") and in German in 1693, discussing magic and "the core of alchemy, which discloses the arcane and highly hidden secret of the philosophers' elixir".
The confusion surrounding the pseudonymous "Philaletes" and his writings was resolved only by the research of John Ferguson. The author of the present work is undoubtedly the Welsh clergyman and alchemist Thomas Vaughan (1621-65).
Stamp of the Czech L'achki collection on the lower pastedown.
Binding with a few traces of worming; interior somewhat browned due to paper stock. Prettily preserved in all.
Ferguson II, 196. Caillet III, 11058. Cf. Duveen 598. Rosenthal 877. Lowndes IV, 2757.
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